Unexpected sunburn

Sarah, Tash, Zac and I decided to hit Frankston beach today. Sure it was hilariously fun, but with dire results. Here's a list of pros and cons:

• We dug a giant hole in the sand (about 1x2m big and like a metre deep)
• Got to catch up, woot
• Saw Katherine working at subway
• Had a half-conversation with a crazy woman at Subway
• Ate lots of ice-cream

Here are the cons:

• We all got really retarded unwanted sunburns, in bizzare places in patches, which I originally thought was a rash and thought nothing of it
• Sarah hates Kate Miller-Heidke
• I hate the beach.

Not many cons really, I just wanted to complain about this misleading red mark everywhere. It's all stingy and such! And yes, I really dislike the beach. It's wet and sandy and windy and uncomfortable and really not worth it. Find a swimming pool damn it, forget the ocean.

This woman in Subway... she was ahead of us in line, being served by Robert (see: Katherine's epic blog) as her child was getting a sub made. When asked what cheese she wanted, the girl said swiss or something and the mum corrected her, "no, she'll get cheddar." Then the girl complained that she wanted three cookies. "No, you're getting two." "But I want three." "Two." "three!" Then the woman screamed, disrupting us all, "TWO!" which we found hilarious.

Then we had sat down, and Tash was casually discussing the prevelance of peanuts in food giving allergies. Zac had said something about the name of peanuts as opposed to regular nuts, I dunno, I wasn't really listening. Then we all just heard this, "BULLSHIT!" coming from elsewhere - it was that woman chiming in on the conversation. She was butting in about "she's right" and "you don't know what to say now, do ya!" to Zac, but was totally treating it like an argument rather than an enquiry about peanuts, and made it out like her BULLSHIT addition actually made a difference and was a valid point of argument. Naturally, we found all this hilarious and kept quoting her the rest of the day.

On a completely different topic, I bought a ticket for Kate Miller-Heidke yesterday. She's playing at the Zoo on the 5th of Feb. Anyone that wants to come with, feel free. I'm trying to get Scott and Zac to come, and Special K (the collective name for Kirk and Kate) are coming too. It shall be rather exciting!

Farewell.

Maybe it's not just a phrase...

The epically bad luck day: Friday the 13th. My mum fell UP (yes, up) the stairs and shattered some bone on her kneecap. She'll be on crutches for a while. The spooky part is that on the February Friday the 13th in 2004 (that's how I remember) she fell up the stairs and stuffed her arm up; it was in a cast for a while. Want it tog et SPOOKIER?! Both 13ths in question here, there were injections at school. In the wise, wise words of Jo Leddy, "I think your mum should stay bedbound on Friday the 13ths."

She also said that it dates back religiously - Jesus dying on a Friday, and that there were 13 people a his death/resurrection (I forget which one).

Anyway, today is a Monday, and although I have no plans for the whole day, I'm STILL too lazy to write about SYG, even though it was a tremendously fun experience. I will, however, show you what awards I got afterwards at the Soggies:
*The best gloves - and not giving people ideas
*Most philosophical and best quote - "I've been coming here 3 years and I've never seen those hills before"
*Best as doing the Nutbush whilst walking
*Most random person (Josh Clover).

That first one, I seriously have no idea who could've wrote that. I think someone was bugging me about what to write on the encouragement wall and I had no idea. That quote, was quite possibly the first thing I said to Sarah Keel all camp, and it's pretty dumb of me considering there are pretty much hills in every direction you look. Zoe and I were doing the Nutbush outside the radio station cos that song was on, then tried doing it as we walked back to Frankstonland, and my Frankston lanyard quite clearly says "John Glover" but the guy at Sacred Space thought it said Josh Clover. Admittedly, not a terribly bad name, considering I'm Irish and all...

Random anecdote. I've started saying "bueno" when I answer my phone now. Mother called me on Friday and after I said bueno, nothing happened. *Pause* "I said, 'bueno'?" "Oh! I thought you said hang on."
HAH. What a story without a plot that was.

Peace out, baby.

Welcome to 2008!

My annual stange blog thing... only this time I stole it from a bulletin. Last night, Emily, Sami and I were running around Somerville at like 10... and met up with some randoms as well as Alex, Callan, Davey and Jacqui and spent midnight at the beach. Quite fun indeed.

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1. First song you listened to?
That one that goes 'WE WERE ON THE PATH TO THE HOLY GRAAAAIL'

2. First person you talked to?
Sami

3. First drink?
Water

4. First thing you ate?
Umm.. toast?

5. First thing you said?
WOOHOO NEW YEARS!!!

6. First movie you watched?
Haven't yet

7. First TV show you watched?
The Nanny

8. First text message?
Dad

9. First MySpace message or comment?
Bronwyn

10. First thing you touched?
Dunno, Sami?

11. First place you went to?
The beach? Although I was already there...

12. First thing you made?
A phone call

13. First thing you laughed at?
The fireworks, in a good-hearted manner :P

14. First person you IM?
Zoe

15. The time you went to bed?
2:30am

16. The time you got up this morning?
About noon?

17. First person you commented?
Hmmm... Callan I think

18. First game you played?
POKEMON CRYSTAL. :D

19. First person you thought about?
All those people I was with in Frankston

20. First person you said Happy New Year to?
Sami

Oh my stars, what's that on your neck?! (AKA Ringwood Pool/Fullerton's/Picnic)

Ho-hum. On Friday, I dragged Rachel along to the Ringwood pool with me, Sarah, dad, Cathy, Chris and Jackie. Umm, actually, that's pretty much it. xDD

NO WAIT!! THERE'S MORE!!

Afterwards we went back to Cathy's watched *almost* all of The Holy Grail, which Jake keeps wanting me to see, played board games or sommet and ate tacos. >.<

You're covered in a fine fuzz.

Anyway, onto Saturday. In the afternoon me and mum wento to Ringwood/Knox City. Mum saw a movie while I stayed with Erin and Kyla at theit place. xDD! We watched The Pacifier and searched through FOXTEL DIGITAL XDD. Mother finally came home, we ate (well, I didn't) and then we loitered for a while and left to go die in peace.

Todaaaay Tash train'd down to Frankston, so me, her, Sarah and Guida went to a park and picnic'd. We bought a little battery-powered boat from the THING OF PLACES. FRANKSTON. I think we left it in the pond. Lol. :)

We went to the playground and burned things in the toilets. THERE WAS NO SHAME FOR GOING IN THE OPPOSITE SEX'S BATHROOM.

Hahaaa.

We went to Frankston and bought things.

The end.

PS. JUST started going out with someone... heheh

After all, I am a lady! (aka SYG)

Here's my little State Youth Games recap. I loved SYG. It was full of SYG. SYG is a giant Chrsitian youth camp in Warragul with games that are played among different Victorian youth groups, along with cheering, gaming, The Village (which is like a disco club thing) movies, live bands, guest speakers, et cetera. Anyway, NOW is my BIGGER recap, with lots of random things that happened along the way.

#1 Found out SYG has their own radio station!! We were driving through the entrance and saw a sign that said "SYGFM 91.1" and it bores me anyway, but Katherine went on it! And I missed it! Agghhh coz the radio station is in the terminally-ill centre of the whole park, not too far from Frankston actually.

#2 Wow, isn't my tent screwed. Opening Ceremony. The tent Matt and I were going to be sleeping in wasn't waterproof, and since the tents were already set up when we got there, ours was not. So we looked around for where we had to sleep, and ended up sleeping in a ROOM. A ROOM. Instead of verybody else n a tent, we got a cozy warm room out the back of the stage/pavillion that is Frankston Campus. Sam, John, and wo other random people I don't know decided to sleep in the room too, GRAR.. xD. Also, the Opening Ceremony was on Friday night... snore. It went pretty fast actually.

#3 Took a huge journey to find Erin. My good ol' pal Erin F. from Ringwood that I've known since I was born went to SYG too, and so did her sister Kyla, who I have known for just as long. I tried texting/calling her for a while and didn't get through. Then she called me and we were trying to locate each other, and I almost walked right past her while on the phone to her out the front of the toilet block, I must've looked so stupid.

#4 Was stalked. As usual, Erin (not the good one, the bad one) from youth was following me and touching me and such... "DO UP YA JACKET DO UP YA JACKET ITS SO COLLLD BLAHBLAHBLAH WHITE NOISE SHRIEKING" the good Erin later decided to name her StalkStalk. All one word.

#5 Met Tash. Erin and I were walking through the Frankston campus and ran into Tash who we too also almost walked right past, and she went HEY JHNNY! And I was like.. WOAH it's Tash. I know her off the internet/sister, and have only ever met her once. Erin immediately decided she likes Tash.

#6 Tash and Erin met StalkStalk. We were standing in Frankston and StalkStalk came up behind me and tapped me on the shoulder. I naturally turned around and she wasn't there, but nooo was on the other side of me. Then she was giggling/hyperventilating, and at this point Erin and Tash were thinking, "I hate her."

#7 Met Sam. This actually happened on the bus ride up to Warragul as I was sitting next to Tori, got to know her a bit, but Matt and Sam had met while still at the church and I sorta met him on the bus. He's cool xD

#8 Got my special Frank T-shirt! Frankston have special T-Shirts that are plain black with a special Frankston logo on the back and on the front are many variations of Frankston slogans. "Fitter, Faster, Franker." "May the Frank be with you." "Just Frank It." "Be Frank." But the one I got was "Is Frank, is Good."

#9 Met Siobhan. Her name annoys me, not only did I not spell it right the first time I wrote it there (had to fix it) I could never remember her name either. She really likes hugs, and she went to Ormond camp along with Tash and is really good friends with Tash. I <3 style="font-weight: bold;">Met Rachel. I don't remember if I met Rachel the same time I met Siobhan, but eh. Rachel is really small and really great... we immediately clicked and for some reason ran off from out group randomly after knowing each other about 5 minutes. How odd.

#11 Found out about Katherine's love for hugs. Katherine goes to Frankie youth, and I found out how much she loves hugs. Swell.

#12 Learned many new dances. ALL off Tash. I can't dance over the internet, and I really don't have the energy or motivation to describe them.

#13 Danced at The Village with Erin. We went over to The Village disco and stood there watching people dance for a while, and graudally started to boogie slightly.

#14 One hour sleep. Friday night I just couldn't sleep. Got about one hour in total. Didn't fully sleep till like 5 or 6.

#15 Saturday morning: Ultimate Frisbee. Just so you know, I didn't sign up for any sports because I am NOT a sporty person, but I was awake at like... 8? Yeah, 8. So I was forced to go "spectate" until like 12:30... BORDEOM. I phoned with Maddz a bit and I got absolutely no break from StalkStalk the whole time, Sam and Matt were defending me.

#16 My lack of food. I didnt' eat one meal they cooked for us on camp. I smuggled my own food, so when lunch, brekkie or dinner came I hid in my room for a while and ate till it was over. xD

#17 Saturday Afternoon: Where was I supposed to be? I was standing in the entrance of Franky campus with Tash and Siobhan, which is where everybody else was. They were sorting out who's going where to spectate, but I don't know what happened, but Sarah Lay, Tori and I were left behind which is what I wanted, I don't want to go bore myself alone watching somebody play something anyway, lol, so I spent the afternoon with Tashy and Siobhan.

#18 The Box. At the Gate 4 entrance to Lardner Park (where we go through) there's a little ticket box thing there and the door was open, so we loitered in a 2x1 metre box for a few hours. It was great, actually. Tash was sitting down, Siobhan was ontop of her and I was standing and sometimes leaning on the door... and the box of like, sliding down a hill so I fell down into the door a few times. We were greeting people coming through the gate and got some yellow-petalled weeds and gave them to people. Also, Tash had a kissing booth.

#19 <3> I've ditched Frankston so much and went with Tash and Siobhan down to their Ormond camp. People were like "HEY you're not from here!" Hey, NS, kind of obvious you fools. I've been in and out of Ormond so much, people recognize me, and I had an interview on their video xD

#20 Aerobics. Aerobics were at about... well some time in the evening, and Tash, Siobhan, Erin, Fatty (who goes to Ormand, briefly met him a bit, he's great. He's actually quite skinny) and I got front row, but we were shoved back to make room for judges, so we got second row instead. The guys infront of us were from Ringwood, and they were all like "Oh yeah, we're so good we got front row by default." Continued.. in number 21. Anyway, we saw like 10 different aerobics performances, they were sooo good/funny, it's great.

#21 Scaring the tools at Aerobics. Anyway, these guys infront of us... I have a thing on my list of things to do before I die that is "Meet someone random in a random way." Tash told me to steal one of the guys' beanie. I wouldn't, told her to. We went back and forth until she complained to Siobhan, who immediately just took the beanie and gave it to Tash. The guy turned around, who later we found out was called Cameron, and he was like "Can I please have my beanie back now?" And tash kept not giving it back, smelling the beanie... "I have a beanie fetish." Eventually we gave it back. Another blonde guy... I forget his name... his hair looks really fluffy, so thanks to Tash's brilliant indearing, I stroked his head going "You're fluffier than you look." And managed to cross off that thing on my list xD!! Some guy called Logan there got up to talk to someone else for a second, so Tash went and stole his seat. When he came back, he was like "Uhh... what are you doing in my chair?" "Ah, just laying back." "Can I please sit back in my chair?" To which Tash responded by smacking her legs a few times to signal that she wants him to sit on her. Arhahrhahr

#22 I forget Siobhan's name. I keep forgetting it. I have her in my phone, a few times when I forgot, I took out my phone and found out. I started calling her random names instead... Shipoopi, Shanaynay, Shilly, Geneva...

#23 Ran off with Rachel again. I don't know how it happened, but we walked through Dandenong campus where Rachel is and she dragged me away from Tash and Geneva and we ran off a bit.

#24 Netball. As usual, I ditched breakfast on Sunday morning and got sent to Netball. We lost so hard, and they made me play 1 and a half rounds, which I spose wasn't that bad, but I made a fool out of myself so much coz I'm bad at netball xD

#25 Sunday afternoon. Ditched volleyball or whatever was on and went with Tash and Geneva, but they had to leave for Air Hockey at two, but fortuneately Erin was back at that time, so I hung out with her for the afternoon. We went to the box, the movie tent, which was empty, but the whole SYG was almost empty because people were playing/spectating sports.

#26 MENTOS!! Erin got me hooked on Mentos while we were at the movie tent. She had a giant tub thing of heaps of them (which was written in Indonesian. Still tasted the same tho), which I had heaps of, and so me, Erin, Sam Pratt and somebody else, eventually... eh people came and went.. we were eating them and chucking the wrappers in the bonfire at Frankston xD Now I'm addicted to mentos.

#27 Where were we sposed to be? Some time during the evening, Staffy, Tash, Geneva, Steve and I went ant loitered at the box for a while, and completely lost track of the time. Turns out we were supposed to go to a worship service, but we completely forgot about it. Oh well.

#28 What a fulfilling conversation. There was nobody at Ormond, so after we somehow lost Steve, that left Staffy, Geneva, Tash and I to go in the warmness of Ormond and we had a special conversation about love and Tash's erections and such. Ahahha, ignore that. xD

#29 Loiter at Dandenong. Tash, Geneva/Siobhan and I went over to Dandenong to see if we could find James... but he wasn't there :( No, instead we found some random people that know Geneva, and they had a can of whipped cream, kept spraying Geneva, hehe. I hugged one of the guys, and he took it to heart, took me round the corner and humped me... it was so hot. I must find him again.

#30 Intellectual convo round the bonfire. Back at Frankston now, near midnight on Sunday, I was sitting at the bonfire, and also there was Katherine, StalkStalk, Grant, and some others that came in and out. We started talking about the theory of evolution, and about how all this Christianity stuff is true, as in Katherine's words, "I don't think the laws of gravity and planets and people and the galaxy and things like that just came together as a coincidence. There must've been God."

#31 Monday... GOING HOOOOME! I wasn't all that tired when I got up, (compared to the other days) and I got up, sat infront of the heater for a bit, then helped Kate, Katherine, Sam Pratt, Steve and Whatsherface take down a tent... it took SO long, especially fitting it into the bag. All of it hurt, it took so much longer than it should've, it was like giving birth.

#32 The Finals! We had all packed up and left the campsite and went over to a basketball place where the netball and basketball finals were on. Tash, Shipoopi, Erin, StalkStalk, Katherine, Rachel, Zac and I loitered in the lobby. We borrowed a pen from reception and Tash and I drew on everything... all over my face and my body especially. Rachel got some pom-poms from Dandenong, so I stole some and we were dancing around with them, it was so much funnn.

#33 State Youth Games 2006: The Closing Ceremony. Ah, State Youth Games is over. The Closing Ceremony was in the gym where the finals were, and they handed out awards and such. One Community won State Youth Games! Wooo! After we went to some park and lunched or something, then went back, washed the bus at the car wash and I got a lift home with Matt xD

#34 I signed Aisha's journal xD. Aisha has a little journal that she puts out to people for them to leave messages, so I left two messages. One had a bunch of things that SYG could stand for... crazy.

#35 Natasha Profile. Tash picked up an axe and threatened StalkStalk. Tash danced. Tash is very popular everywhere, she knew everybody. Tash lost her voice on some day, Saturday I think, and was croaky the rest of the camp. The end.

#36 Aerobics Part 2. Sunday night, Frankston performed for Aerobics infront of everybody. They did the dance from Napoleon Dynamite, it was SOOO GOOOOD! Ala TGS.

#37 SYG made me sick. SYG had the coldest weather ever, I had a cold that was UBER bad on Saturday and Sunday, and now my throat hurts and such, and I'm really hot... fever perhaps? Ehh I have a bit of a headache too.

I hope you read all that.

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